Unusual Plants in a Collector’s Garden

Gardening off the beaten track

Mark Mitckes is a collector who likes rare plant life and gardens in Zone 7a on a James Jerome Hill overlooking a lake in Oak Ridge , Tennessee . He has over 300 woody plants and at least as many perennial . He has been garden for over 35 year and also has chatter many gardens on his traveling . His pet area for buy plants is the Pacific Northwest seashore , both in soul and ordered off the internet . He has determine by experience that many of these flora will not live his hot humid summer or cold wet wintertime .

Sinocalycanthus chinense(Chinese sweetshrub , zone 5–8 ) . This beautiful bush is the Asiatic equivalent of our aboriginal sweetshrub , Calycanthusfloridus . It blooms in give and former summer in the nicety with these beautiful flowers .

Cephlathus occidentallis(buttonbush , Zones 5–9 ) . This native shrub , which produces these strange balls of flush in summer , thrives in light nicety and moist soils .

The unusualGloriosa superba(gloriosa lily , zone 8–11 ) is a scramble vine , and it produces these glorious flowers in summer . Though not hardy over winter Second Earl of Guilford of Zone 8 , this works does produce bulbous roots that can be dug and stored over wintertime like a dahlia orgladiolusfor replanting next twelvemonth .

Tacca chantrieri , also known as the squash racquet blossom , has some of the most unusual blooms in the gardening world . Though raw to freeze , it can be grown as a houseplant , or exterior for the summertime andoverwinteredindoors in colder climates .

Arisaemacandissmum(pink sea dog - in - the - pulpit , Zones 5–8 ) is an Asian congener of our native jack - in - the - pulpit ( ArisaematriphyllumZones 4–9 ) . It has elegant flowers paint with stripes of white and pink .

ThoughScadoxius puniceus(blood lily , Zones 9–11 ) ca n’t survive inhuman winter , its bulbs can be dig and wintered indoors , or grown in container and lend inside for the winter . The advantage is these striking and unusual blossom .

The aboriginal oakleaf hydrangea(Hydrangeaquercifolia , Zones 5–9 ) is already a wonderful plant , but this cultivar , called‘Little Honey ’ , is perhaps even better , with its beautiful yellow foliage .

It is easy to see howSymplocus paniculata(Zones 4–8 ) got the usual name of sapphire Chuck Berry .

Stewartiamalocodendron(mountain camellia , Zones 5–9 ) is a congenator of the Asian camellia but is aboriginal to the forests of the southeasterly United States .

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